Improvement in roach and bug-traps



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lLetters Patent No. 109,282, dated November 15,` 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN RCACH AND BUG-TRAPS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To callin/'hom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS WILLxAMs, of Tomplinsville, in the county' of Richmond and Sta-te of New York, have invented a new and improved Roach and Bug-Trap; and I do hereby `declare that 4the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof, whiclrwill enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

Figure l represents a plan or -top view ot my im proved roach and bug-trap.

Figure 2 is a vertlcal section of the saine.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding,r parts.

This invention relates to a new device for catching croton-bugs, cockroaches, and other creeping insects; and

It consists in the arrangement or" a smooth entrance, which is so placed that the animals cannot crawl out of the same.

A in the drawing represents a case or boxnmade with inclined sides and open on top. It is made of wood or other-suitable material.

B is a cylindrical or slightly conical vessel, suspended by means of an outer flange, a., or otherwise, from the top of the box.

This vessel B is made of glass, or otherwise provided with a highly polishedv and smootheled inner surface. It is open at both ends, its lower end reaching nearly to the bottom of the box A.

The operation is as follows:

Food oi' some kind apt to attract the insectis placed within the box. The bugs will readily ascend the inclined sides of the box, and, as they can plainly see or perceive the food at the bottom of the same, will drop themselves int-o the box or descend along the smooth sides or" the cylinder, on which they cannot reascend. They are thus helplessly caught, and can be. destroyed in suitable manner. u

Having thus describedl my invention,

I claim as new and desire to lsecure by Letters Patent- I A' removable resse-l, B a, havimgr a glass or other equivalent smooth inner surface, and suspended as described, combined with the box A, all constructed as and for the purpose specified.

' THOMAS WILLIAMS.

"Witnesses:

GEO. W. MABEE, T. B. MosHER. 

